Sentence examples for universal asset from inspiring English sources

Right now, just about every Vivendi Universal asset looks like a jump ball.

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The American-based Universal assets in that venture are now on the block.

He said the most significant change going forward was "finding ways to monetize the Universal assets and creating new platforms".

Still, Hollywood executives largely dismissed the notion that Mr. Davis could ever acquire the Vivendi Universal assets.

If the decision goes NBC's way, tomorrow's board meeting may end an almost yearlong competition for the Vivendi Universal assets.

The board's decision was the latest round in what has become a drawn-out auction for the Vivendi Universal assets.

Among those mulling whether to join Mr. Bronfman in bidding for the Vivendi Universal assets, these people said, are Cablevision Systems, one of the nation's largest cable operators, and several private equity firms, including Quadrangle, led by Steven Rattner, a member of the Cablevision board.

In 2003 when Vivendi first put its Universal assets up for sale, Comcast 's president took a serious look at buying the entertainment company.

In the first half of 2003, Vivendi plans to sell its "Seagram" collection, inherited in a merger in 2000 which added the Edgar Bronfman Edgar Bronfman family's Universal assets to the group's portfolio of assets.

It wouldn't be much better for Vivendi executives who have been candid about their disinterest in NBC Universal, an asset they've publicly dubbed "non-core"–and, perhaps more poignantly, their desire to off-load it to get "more headroom," as Vivendi Chief Financial Office Philippe Capron put it at a conference in Spain last week.